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As always, thanks to all colleagues and coworkers who contributed to the manuscript!.

If you are working in the field of outbreak investigation and would try or collaborate on the further validation / development of NanoCore, please reach out!.

Potential future work: Integrate support for assembly-based isolate comparisons, leveraging the accuracy of R10 chemistry flow cells; and extend the supported distance metrics beyond the bacterial core genome.